The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829

LORD GROSVENOR'S GALLERY, PARK LANE

HENRY JENKINS

VENERATION OF CATS IN ANCIENT DAYS, AND VALUE OF KITTENS, &c

ST. DUNSTAN'S, FLEET STREET

CONSTANTINOPLE

THE NOVELIST

THE BACHELOR'S REVENGE

RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS

LETTER OF LORD STRAFFORD

STONE PILLARS AND CROSSES

NOTES OF A READER

THE LONDON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, No. 1

THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE, No. 1

THE FOREIGN REVIEW

UNPUBLISHED LINES ON DR. JOHNSON

GAS LIGHTS

CAPE WINES

A VIEW OF LONDON

NEW YORK

THE TRUE FORNARINA

ITALIAN SCENERY

MUSICAL MARVEL

POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

THE BLACK LADY OF ALTENÖTTING

THE RIVER

The Anecdote Gallery

YOUTH OF MOZART

THE GATHERER

AN ATTACHMENT

WINE

GEORGE III

INGENIOUS DEFENCE

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At the commencement of our Twelfth Volume, we took occasion to allude to the public spirit of the Earl of Grosvenor, in our description of his splendid mansion—Eaton Hall, near Chester. We likewise adverted to his lordship's munificent patronage of the Fine Arts, and to the erection of the Gallery which forms the subject of the annexed Engraving.

The Gallery forms the western wing of Lord Grosvenor's spacious town mansion in Park Lane. It is from the designs of Mr. Cundy, and consists of a colonnade of the Corinthian order, raised upon a plain joined stylobate. Over each column of the principal building is an isolated statue with an attic behind them, after the manner of the ancient building called by Palladio the Forum Trajan at Rome. On the acroteria of the building are vases on a balustrade, and between the columns is a series of blank windows with balustraded balconies and triangular pediments, which Mr. Elmes thinks are so introduced as to disfigure the other grand parts of the design. Above these are sunk panels, with swags or garlands of fruit and flowers. Mr. E. is likewise of opinion that, "but for the stopped-up windows, and the overpowering and needless balustrade over the heads of the statues, this building would rank among the very first in the metropolis; even with these trifling drawbacks, that can easily be remedied before the whole is completed, it is grand, architectural, and altogether worthy of its noble proprietor."

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"Stop, stop—don't be in such a hurry—tell him, he has never ordered for me the Quarterly, as I desired—that I want to see the United Service Journal, and Blackwood for the month; and that if he chooses to charge four pence a night for his new novels, I'll not read one of them."

"Of course, sir; I'll tell him, for 'tis a shame, a real shame, for any body to repose on, as one may say, a gentleman like yourself. Never fear, but I'll tell him."

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